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Vehicle with raised liftglass assembly

Granted 1 Oct 2002 · 2 office actions

Assignee: Ford Motor

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Inventors: Lynn David Dadeppo, David Christopher Mahoney, Rakesh Sehgal, Phillip Joseph Linson +2 · Examiner: Melody N. Brown · AU 2911 · TC 2900

Application
29/145,408
filed 23 Jul 2001
Publication
Not published
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US D463767
granted 1 Oct 2002

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a rear-quarter view in perspective…

FIG. 1 is a rear-quarter view in perspective of a motor vehicle that includes a raised liftglass assembly for closing a rear body opening that extends below the vehicle beltline as defined by the lowermost edges of the vehicle's side windows;

FIG. 2 is a top plan view of the vehicle with raised liftglass assembly of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a rear elevational view of the vehicle of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a side elevational view of the vehicle of FIG. 1 (the other side elevational view being a mirror image thereof);

FIG. 5 is a bottom view of the vehicle liftglass assembly of FIG. 1; and,

FIG. 6 is an interior view of the vehicle of FIG. 1, looking out of the rear body opening.

Broken lines are used in the Drawings to denote certain subject matter, for example, environmental structure or boundaries, that form no part of the design to be patented.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D12/196

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